Here were some of the more interesting quotes from his 15-minute session.

On whether he's concerned about the status of Andre Smith, who missed the preseason due to concussion protocol, for Sunday's game:

"I never have any concerns but I don't know if Andre will be ready to come out of the gate. Concerns really don't matter because nobody gives me anything for them, so we'll know where Andre is when we get to Sunday."

On how he can prepare rookie center Russell Bodine for his first game:

"I guess, No. 1, it's not on Russell. That's the first part of it. Everybody has to do their part and Russell has a part in it and everyone else has a part in it. We've been preparing for this for a bit. It's only 11 guys out there. They're not going to move any different places. That's the way they are."

On whether the Bengals losing every game in Baltimore since 2009 is irrelevant:

"It doesn't really matter. There's few people left here from 2009 and every time you go it's a new game. It really doesn't matter, we have to go play good football. Whatever your record is (was) you don't get any points for it this year. We get no points for being 8-0 here in the regular season. You start new every time. If you don't believe that look at society. Look at these guys we're dealing with. We have to start new every day. That's part of it and we can never overlook that from these guys and I think if you do then you get fooled."

He watches tape. He doesn't listen to opinion of others. He watches tape and listens to the opinion of his people that are close to him. They do it by evaluation, they don't do it by hearsay. Their moves are based on the big picture. They're not necessarily always based on the exact moment, but they're based on the big picture. One of Ozzie's favorite things to say is the move that you don't make might be best move you've ever made. So he's going to make the move that they think is important at the time. If they want a player they're going to go get a player, but they're not going to let anything persuade him into a player he doesn't want. And he has a blueprint of what that guy looks like and how he carries himself and so forth."

On how he would describe Hue Jackson's coaching style:

"He is very detailed, demanding and yet he can put his arm around the guy and close the door and explain to him why and make him understand him why he's being as the guys say hard on him that day, that moment. It's a good quality to have. You have to have both. These guys are here as their profession and they don't get to do it for very long. They have to understand we have their best interest at heart is to help them be the best player they can be. That's our goal and we're going to push hard at that every single one of them."

On how he would describe Paul Guenther's coaching style:

"I think Paul has done an excellent job of reaching out to each one of the defensive players individually - the guys that were returning guys – and really impressed upon them what his expectations for each of them were individually as well as collectively. I think they responded. Paul's unique. Paul worked in every phase of football around here so he's basically been grown from the ground up with some of these guys and he's worked with them through special teams and he's worked with them through initially just with me and he's worked with them through defense and now as the coordinator. He's been involved really from the ground up with a lot of these guys."